Identifier: collectionofvoya02osbo (find matches)
Title: A collection of voyages and travels: consisting of authentic writers in our own tongue, which have not before been collected in English, or have only been abridged in other collections. And continued with others of note, that have published histories, voyages, travels, journals or discoveries in other nations and languages, relating to any part of the continent of Asia, Africa, America, Europe, or the islands thereof,from the earliest account to the present time...
Year: 1745 (1740s)
Authors: Osborne, Thomas, d. 1767 Erondelle, Pierre, fl. 1586-1609, tr
Subjects: Neder Oost-Indische Campagnie Voyages and travels Voyages around the world
Publisher: London : T. Osborne
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ah the prophet was fent unto them from God, to foretel them of extreme cala- FROM the ruins of Old Babylon wemity, becaufe they worfhipped an idol cal- fet forwards to Aleppo -, travelling, for theled Baal; whereupon (as they relate) Joa- moft part, through the defart of Arabia,chim commanded Jeremiah to be burnt This country, of Arabia hath on the northalive. But Jeremiah tells them, that the Palejlina, and Mefopotamia ; on the eaftking of Affyria fhould put them to fore the gulf of Perfia; on the fouth the mainlabour, and make them to dig a channel, ocean of India -, on the weft Egypt andto fail out of the river Euphrates, into the the Redfea. It is divided into threeriver Tygris : whereupon Nebuchadnezar parts : the north part whereof, is the de-did fet forward with a mighty army, fpoil- fart of Arabia ; the fouth part is calleding Samaria, winning Jerufalem, and Arabia-Fcelix ; and the middle betweenleading away king Joachim prifoner. both is Arabia Petrofa: it is not my pur- pofe
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The Treachers Travels. The opi-nion ofthem ofMecha,touchingMahomettheir pro-phet. The Tar*-^religiona merefeignedinvention. It is fullof lies andfables. The pro-mifes aremere car-nal plea-fures. pofe to Write any thing either ofArabia Fe-lix, qk Arabia Petrofa, becaufe they Jie notin the compafs of my travel: only it fhallnot be. amifs to infert a word or two ofMahomet and his fuperftition, who wasborn in this country, and hath fubduedthe greateft part of the world with his abo-minable religion. Concerning Mahomet, the people ofMecha (where he lieth entombed) do al-together condemn him both for his rob-beries and murders. And himfelf in hisalcoran confeiTeth himfelf to be a finner,an idolater, an adulterer, and inclined towomen above meafure, and that in fuchuncivil terms, as I am afhamed to re-peat. And concerning his alcoran, wherein hehath inferted the precepts of his invention,there is no truth in it. For upon thepain of death, it may not be difpuced up-on •, whereas the truth l

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